Goniopora, de Blainville, 1830

Salimi, Parisa Alidoost, Mostafavi, Pargol Ghavam, Chen, Chaolun Allen, Fatemi, Seyed Mohammad Reza & Pichon, Michel, 2018, Microphysogobio bicolor, Zoological Studies 57 (56), pp. 1-34 : 26

Goniopora columna Dana, 1846

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Synonym: Goniopora columna Dana, 1846.

Material examined: Abu-Musa Island ( ZUTC 6627).

Description: Colony is columnar. Corallites are subcircular to polygonal and formation by extratentacular budding, diameter 2.5 to 3 mm. Calice shallow, less than 1 mm deep. Irregular septa, arrangement is gonioporoid and sometimes indistinct. Septa consist of perforated vertical plates and occasionally continuous over the wall of adjacent corallites. Columella is broad, spongy, filling up to 1/2 calice diameter. Wall comparatively thin, porous, but not heavily perforated. Polyps like for many other species of Goniopora , polyps are fully extended during daytime. A whitish oral cone is conspicuous.

Distribution: Rare in the Persian Gulf. Relatively common in the Indo-Pacific.

Figures

Fig. 24. (a-b) Goniopora columna from Abu-Musa Island; (c-d) close-up of corallites. Scale bar = 1 mm. © 2018 Academia Sinica, Taiwan